Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine
Details
- External ID
- 46576367
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Jan. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 20
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6521739130434783
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi All.I made this as an fun intro to help people who have zero IBM mainframe experience and no access to a modern IBM mainframe (at least, not access to do whatever you want with it). I appreciate tips, suggestions and anything that might improve the experience for someone who has no idea of how those machines operate(d).
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- vm/370 emulation and tools
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an introductory educational guide or curated sandbox/script collection for running IBM VM/370 on the Hercules emulator, which is straightforward content and scripting easily built with AI assistance.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: PowerVM as mandatory requirement for POWER 8, AS/400/i classification as mid-range, not mainframe
Feature requests: REXX compiler/interpreter support, Additional compilers and interpreters availability
Competitors
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Attention rank: #11 of 30 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 72 days after the earliest competitor.
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